Cibachrome Blue - Momus

Take a voyage through the heart of darkness

To the sound of violins

On a sleeper train across the face of the moon

Discover many things

Go transatlantic, transpacific

Till the scales fall from your eyes

Amplify the longing, exaggerate the heat

And rise

Paul at Damascus and Christopher Columbus

Only found what they knew

Close your eyes and you may find it too

RNA and DNA

In a post-ethical age

Nothing is true

We move like shadows across the stage

Originator man, originator man

Make me a sun in the palm of your hand

A rising and setting sun

Deflowering, 24 hours, reflowering

Going out of fashion

Coming back into fashion

Catch the fruit as it falls for me

Hang it on the tree again

(Sunshine in the darkness)

I guess I’ve come to throw some shade

(Moving in the aftershock)

This time I’ve come to pull some weight

(Forwards through the crossfire)

Wc move with hands outstretched

Like the passionate forms we are

Carbon based lives

Born in exploding stars

(The helix and the spiral)

Transatlantic, transpacific

Four minutes and 33 seconds of love

A prophet predicted a space probe

That predicted the start of a world

An impossibly remote opportunity

A flash of the dice in the game of chance

Played by a lonely young girl

Then came a messiah, a second messiah

A third messiah then another messiah

Then everything changed

Signal to noise, boys will be boys

And girls will be boys

Increment is decrement, Christ is anti-Christ

And so on and so on — to cry is to laugh

There are multiplications and variations

There is no true path

Call him cut creator, originator

Or call him another name

All the basking sharks on the barrier reef

Call him The Oyster Man

He’s ducking for pearls, throwing them back

Watching the signs, making it new

Experimental worlds

In Cibachrome blue

(Sunshine in the darkness)

Take a voyage through the heart

To the sound of violins

On a sleeper train across the face of the moon

Discover many things

(Moving in the aftershock)

Paul at Damascus and Christopher Columbus

Only found what they knew

Close your eyes and you may find it too

(Forwards through the crossfire)

We move with hands outstretched

Like the passionate forms we are

Carbon-based lives born in exploding stars

(The helix and the spiral)

Ragamuffin boy, Sheherezade

A commonplace book of styles

Lying in the olive grove

God smiles